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This was sent to me in an email and I felt it worth sharing with my “Sisters”……..
A young wife sat on a sofa on a hot humid day, drinking iced tea and visiting with her Mother. As they talked about life, about marriage, about the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood, the mother clinked the ice cubes in her glass thoughtfully and turned a clear, sober glance upon her daughter.
‘Don’t forget your Sisters,’ she advised, swirling the tea leaves to the bottom of her glass. ‘They’ll be more important as you get older. No matter how much you love your husband, no matter how much you love the children you may have, you are still going to need Sisters. Remember to go places with them now and then; do things with them. Remember that ‘Sisters’ means ALL the women…your girlfriends, your daughters, and all your other women relatives too. ‘You’ll need other women. Women always do.’
What a funny piece of advice!’ the young woman thought.. Haven’t I just gotten married?
Haven’t I just joined the couple-world? I’m now a married woman, for goodness sake! A grown up! Surely
my husband and the family we may start will be all I need to make my life worthwhile!’
But she listened to her Mother. She kept contact with her Sisters and made more women friends each year. As the years tumbled by, one after another, she gradually came to understand that her Mom really knew what she was talking about. As time and nature work their changes and their mysteries upon a woman, Sisters are the mainstays of her life.
After more than 50 years of living in this world, here is what I’ve learned:
THIS SAYS IT ALL:
Time passes.
Life happens.
Distance separates.
Children grow up.
Jobs come and go.
Love waxes and wanes.
Men don’t do what they’re supposed to do. 
sorry guys
Hearts break.
Parents die.
Colleagues forget favors
Careers end.
BUT……..
Sisters are there, no matter how much time and how many miles are between you. A girl friend is never farther away than needing her can reach.
When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life
will be on the valley’s rim, cheering you on, praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the valley’s end.
Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk beside you…Or come in and carry you out.
Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters, daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers,
Grandmothers, aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended family, all bless our life!
The world wouldn’t be the same without women, and neither would I. When we began this adventure called womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other.
Every day, we need each other still.
Teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live……….then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind and to be subject to their husbands so that no one will malign the word of God.
Titus 2:3-5
It was one those notoriously busy days at work where we were all pretty tired close to the end of the day. So instead of standing as I normally do, I pulled up a stool by the patient’s stretcher and prepared to pull the sheath from the arterial site we entered for our procedure and hold pressure on his artery for the next 10 to 15 minutes to stop the bleeding. He made no response as I gently pulled the sheath and held some pretty firm pressure on his leg.
Usually I get pretty chatty with these folks that I’m feeling a “little intimate” with at the moment but he just lay there still with his eyes closed, expressionless. He was a very frail 84 years old and had just been given the news there was nothing much left to do with his severe heart disease.
As I was sitting there quietly doing my job, that familiar “voice” in my head that often urges me to do things that make me uncomfortable said to me “sing Jesus Loves You”. I thought to myself, no way I’m doing that in this room with this little old man and nothing between us and and everyone else but a curtain!
Again…“sing Jesus Loves Me”. Uh huh, not doing it, not this time, not now!
Again……….“sing Jesus Loves Me”. Oh shoot, a third command, He means business and I have vowed to try to be more obedient…….sigh…….. okay…….. here goes.
I open my mouth and start to squeak out a humble quiet familiar old song but as He tends to do with me, the song ended up coming out of me much stronger and with feeling.
Suddenly this little old frail man opens his eyes and looks at me with a sparkle from those sunken eyes that could have lit a dark room! He reached out and took hold of my arm and continued to smile at me as I now was singing the song with tears in my eyes and “glory bumps” covering my arms.
When I finished singing he squeezed my arm and said to me, ” you’re right, Jesus does loves us very much, thank you so much for singing to me.” We both knew where it came from and we started a wonderful conversation about God’s Word being the Truth and being alive in us when we believe and have faith that He sent His Son to die for us because of His love for us.
It was a precious spiritual experience in the midst of a very busy, hectic, tiring day at work where the Holy Spirit touched two people, each with different concerns and reminded us both that God was always with us, He never leaves us or forsakes us.
As always, when I am obedient to that voice, I receive more of a blessing than I feel like was meant for someone else! Thank You, Holy Spirit for prompting me when my Father assigns You the task. Thank you Father for loving us enough to put our sins on Your Beloved Son, thank you Jesus, for carrying our sins to the cross so that we may have that personal relationship and eternal life with You.
WOW!! That’s pretty impressive and it was exciting to be a part of all of it!
I’m talking about Beth Moore’s 100th Living Proof Live conference via simulcast from Louisville, Kentucky. It was also the 10th anniversary of Living Proof Ministries.
Me and three of my sisters in Christ attended at Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church in Fayetteville, GA. We had a fabulous weekend which included a big girl “sleepover” at the Holiday Inn Express there in downtown Fayetteville and eating out at two very neat local establishments in town. Lauren and Joe live close to me and Brandi, my new “baby” sister in Christ came up from Macon to join us. I was very excited for Brandi to be with us because she is brand new to Beth Moore and they both are kindred spirits as far as having a “demonstrative” personality (as Beth calls it).
Beth was in awe of the magnitude of this event exclaiming to us that she couldn’t “get her bleached blonde brain around all of it”!
Travis Cottrelland his team right away knocked Brandi’s socks off with their amazing worship (as they always do mine and everyone elses’) and when some of the first words Beth said to us was “let’s not blink and miss the one shot we have for life but let’s not live it for ourselves, let’s live it for Him”, well my “baby” Christian sister was on the edge of her seat! Her hunger and desire to get closer to God rubbed off on the other three of us and we all clung to every word of God’s teaching through Beth.
She taught from Luke 8, the parable of the four soils, yet as many of you well know, she had us all over the Bible. . It was a great lesson teaching us how we can let God’s Word have maximum impact in our lives by sowing seeds in good soil. Oh, I could go on and on with some excellent teaching and maybe I’ll do a wrap up some other time.
When we got back to the hotel Friday night, Brandi was full of questions that we were doing our best to answer and when we thought she was satisfied we turned the lights out to get some rest for the next morning. Then she piped up again in the dark thinking of more things to ask from her spinning brain and we talked in the dark til 2:15 in the morning. It was pretty awesome experiencing such an enthusiastic hunger that we remember ourselves when we were babies in the faith.
Well, we know how God cares so much for us and takes care of even our smallest needs and curiosities of our walk with Him which we fully witnessed first hand the next day. Throughout Beth’s teaching, she talked about almost every single question Brandi had been curious about the night before and I have a bruise on my thigh where she kept poking me every time that happened as she looked at me with her eyes so full of excited new knowledge!
So on this Sunday afternoon I am basking in the weekend, the enormity of this simulcast, the awesome teaching of a new insight into some familiar scripture, time in studying God’s Word with some special sisters and the excitement of my new precious friend as she discovers the nature of God and His Word in her life.
Oh, she called me last night and told me that her friends who had asked her to go tubing down a river told her that she missed out on a great time and she told them they had no idea what she didn’t miss out on. We both decided that they might have been tubing on the water but she was “walking” on water!! She loved it!
Thank you, Father, for the maximum impact You have in our lives when we increase our confidence and our competence in your Word, increasing our crops 100 fold!
Pass me those seeds!
